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Senior Show Opens April 7

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"Our Inevitable Expansion," an exhibition of work by graduating majors in art and
art history at Hope College, will featured in the gallery of the De Pree Art Center
from Friday, April 7, through Sunday, May 7.

There will be an opening reception on Friday, April 7, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The public is invited to both the reception and the exhibition. Admission is free. Work represented in the show ranges from highly representational pencil drawings and acrylic paintings to large-scale mixed media sculptural installations. Also on display are the senior papers of graduating art history majors. The exhibiting studio art majors are Carrie Berlin of Eastpointe; Letty Bowling of Byron Center; Jeff DeWitt of Adrian; Jennifer Ernst of Westerville, Ohio; Dawn Garland of Dorr; Angela Kidder of Grand Rapids; Matthew Morgan of Rockford; Christine Orejuela of Grand Rapids; Katrin Seid of North Muskegon; Kari Schneider of Birmingham; Kathryn Shelley of Saginaw; John Tyrrell of Chelsea; and Joel VanderKamp of Midland. The art history majors with papers featured are Allison Ash of Grosse Pointe; Carrie Berlin of Eastpointe; Erin Selmer of Seymour, Wis.; and Dana Vanderplow of Jenison. The students will give slide presentations of their papers on Wednesday, April 19, and Wednesday, April 26. The De Pree Art Center is located at 12th Street and Columbia Avenue. Regular gallery hours are Monday- Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Hours may be reduced during breaks and holidays. The gallery is handicapped accessible. Additional information may be obtained by calling (616) 395-7500.

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Resident Artist in Smithsonian

Internationally recognized Nigerian sculptor Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, who spent the fall of 1996 at Hope College as an artist-in-residence, is featured in a retrospective exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.